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Flash Flood Warning 107, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 27, 1996Adams County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 1996, 2:30 PM EDT for Adams County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 1996, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1996, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Adams County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 337 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 88 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1184 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams26 min
Aug 27, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown36 min
Aug 27, 1:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNOwen2 hr
Aug 27, 1:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNOwen23 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.